Since it was founded in 1995, SOMM Recordings has captured everyone's imagination. Its aim is to share with its public the joy of classical music and the delight of discovering fresh repertoire, performed by artists of talent and scholarship. SOMM receives frequent accolades worldwide from collectors, music lovers, critics and the media for recordings of quality, style and originality. In addition to its championing of British music and an unusual catalogue of choral music and song, SOMM and its artists are now working together to uncover new repertoire in a variety of genres, styles and periods.The SOMM catalogue consists of three main strands. Our SOMM full-price catalogue comprises mostly first recordings of unusual repertoire. The Céleste Catalogue offers a variety of mid-price CDs - mostly new recordings of instrumental and chamber music, but also a number of reissues and historical recordings never before issued. Also on Céleste at mid-price is our 'New Horizons' series, the aim of which is to provide exceptionally talented young musicians with the opportunity of promoting their careers worldwide in top-quality recordings.The recordings in the Beecham Collection (to be released shortly) have been lovingly restored and digitally remastered from acetates and 78s by sound engineer Gary Moore. Listening to these finished discs, one becomes aware of what the music making of Sir Thomas Beecham really meant. The Collection consists of previously unreleased studio and live recordings and broadcasts conduced by Sir Thomas with favourite orchestras and artists. Here is also ample proof that whilst remaining one of the greatest supporters of British artists and repertoire, he was also an inspired interpreter of a huge range of music from Handel and Mozart to Sibelius, Richard Strauss and Wagner.